Saturday, January 30, 2010

Turning off your hardware acceleration for better 2d performance?

No that s not a joke ... if you re working in a heavily 2d using program (Photoshop for example) you should turn your hardware acceleration off on all the new GPUs: -Link-


Really nice to see your expensive graphics card being outperformed by an on-board chip on a two year-old $50 motherboard!

Statement from amd: "Tom’s Hardware has tripped over a workload area (2D lines, etc.) that we have not optimized yet."

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Network security isn't all fun and games

Today i found an interesting analysis about the network traffic of steam while playing Team Fortress 2 by Brett Turner and Andrew Woodward.

Though they have written this some time ago, i think it is still very accurate.

And just again it confirms my view of how Valve is doing stuff but read it yourself here: Network security isn’t all fun and games: An analysis of information transmitted while playing Team Fortress 2